School finance can play a critical role in giving all students an opportunity to achieve. In this video, Jesse Levin, an AIR principal researcher, examines why it's important to accurately measure students' needs to ensure that they receive an equitable and adequate education.

Many Egyptian students are missing out on foundational literacy skills in the early grades while older students are being passed along into the upper grades without having acquired such skills. In this video, AIR literacy specialist Rebecca Stone talks about how AIR developed a remedial reading and writing program and literacy teacher-training program to address the need in Egypt.

Research shows that the mere presence of a weapon in a car can intensify deadly aggression. In this commentary for CNN, AIR expert Mary Vriniotis addresses the recent road rage death of a 44-year-old mother and the complex relationship between guns and cars.

As technical and scientific innovation continue to drive the global economy, educators, policymakers, and scientists seek to promote students’ interest and achievement in the STEM fields to maintain the nation’s competitive positions.

Content standards, not performance standards, have been almost the sole focus of state policies and recent conversations about academic standards. Aiming High: Setting Performance Standards for Student Success shows that state performance standards are consistently low and extremely variable across states. To address this issue, states should adopt evidence-based methods for setting standards, such as the benchmark method, to ensure students are prepared to compete in the global marketplace.

Most of the world is multilingual—multilingual at the national level (policies), at the community and family level (practices), and at the individual level (cognitive)—and each of these has implications for teaching and learning. Yet, at present, most reading decisions are not based on empirical research of how children learn to read in multilingual contexts. This is one of the first studies to focus on formative, pre-intervention research for developing a theory of change that is relevant for multilingual learners in the developing world.

AIR designed the Health Insurance Literacy Measure survey to better understand which areas Americans need more assistance and education. In a recent round of surveys, we found participants correctly answered 60 percent of knowledge and skills questions on average. While many could define “premium” (81 percent), far fewer could describe an HMO (50 percent). Want to test your knowledge? Answer this sampling of questions.

President Obama’s proposed federal budget would increase funding for many education initiatives, programs for homeless veterans and disabled workers, technology training for teachers, and other programs. What does research and evidence say about these programs' effectiveness and value?

The U.S. Department of Education has renewed its focus on ensuring that all students—especially those in under-resourced communities—have access to excellent educators. By June of 2015, all states must engage education stakeholders on locally-developed solutions to ensure every student has effective educators. This discussion guide is designed to help educators, administrators, and other school and district employees work through how their school, community, district, and state can best tackle equal access to excellent educators.

Changes to federal education law—in particular, the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA) and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA)—have created a national conversation about accountability for students with disabilities.